Information sheet: historical displays
Writing school history | Teachers and principals | Past students | Celebration activities | Special guests and requests | Historical displays
Historical displays create interest in school anniversary celebrations.
Consider the following:
Display location
- accessibility
- spaciousness of location
- security
- supervision
Copies of historical documents
- correspondence from community asking for a school
- official application form
- list of prospective students
- first inspector's report
- first teacher's letter advising date of opening of school
- early school photographs
- old scholarship papers
School work and certificates
- pupils' exercise books
- copybooks
- old report cards
- swimming certificates, awards for excellence
- old uniforms
- material contrasting old and new in education
- examples of former and current pupils' writing and art work
Further considerations
Material needs to be:
- carefully labelled
- clearly captioned
- relevant to your display
- placed in recognisable order (e.g. chronological, thematic etc)
- securely displayed
- returned soon after the event
School anniversary kits
Library Services has three display kits available for loan. Kits comprise:
- old slates, slate pencils, textbooks, badges, inkwells
- posters depicting scenes from education long ago
- good manners chart
- charts related to Queensland's educational past
There is no charge to borrow a kit. They need to be ordered in advance and either
- collected in person
- collected by courier or
- posted to client
The kits are to be returned as soon as possible after the event. Schools are expected to cover the return postage/delivery of the kit.
Reserving an anniversary kit
Book your anniversary kit by contacting Library Services.
Pullenvale Environmental Education Centre historic kits
This Centre has more extensive historic kits for hire from which schools can recreate an historic classroom. Details are available from Pullenvale Environmental Education Centre.